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Religion

Advocacy for Women Deacons by Alum Phyllis Zagano, a World Expert, Goes before Global Vatican Gathering

September 29, 2023
An artists' rendering of United Methodist Church's new apartment complex. A modern building on a metropolitan street corner.
Religion & Real Estate

From The Ground Up

August 4, 2023
Photo: Reverend Arthur Gordon delivers his sermon at St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Roxbury. A black man wearing a black robe over a white collared shirt and yellow striped tie raises both hands as he gives a sermon at the front of a church.
Religion

A Public Theology: BU Alumni Pastors Bring Their Faith to Politics

January 27, 2023
ROME, ITALY - FEBRUARY 02: Pope Francis leads a mass on the world Day of Consacrated life at St. Peter's Basilica, on February 02, 2022 in Rome, Italy. Pope Francis leads a Holy Mass with the members of the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life to celebrate the 26th World Day For Consecrated Life. (Photo by Eric Vandeville/Vatican Pool - Corbis/Getty Images)
Religion

Should Women Be Ordained Catholic Deacons?

April 26, 2022
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Religion

Priest Shortage? Why a Surprising Number of BU Alums Are Entering the Catholic Priesthood

November 18, 2021
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Religion

Tyler Sit, founding pastor, New City Church

November 18, 2020
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Religion

A Leader Emerges

August 12, 2020
Black and White portrait of Rev. Mariama White-Hammond at the New Roots AME church where she pastors.
Religion & Activism

Building Bridges Between the Environmental and Racial Justice Movements in Boston

October 15, 2019
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A First Grader’s Murder Spurs a Mother’s Crusade to Teach Love

December 14, 2018
Pastor Brandon Thomas Crowley in church
Higher Education

The Energy of Ancestors

December 20, 2016
David Wluka at the Nowy Dwór Jewish Memorial
Religion

Saving an Ancestral Cemetery

October 26, 2015
Susan Silverman, Yosef Abramowitz
Religion

Civil Disobedience, a Love Story

October 9, 2014

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